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[created] | Published by: New York Daily News
02/13/2020

NYC lawmakers aim to protect fast food workers from unfair firings

NYC lawmakers aim to protect fast food workers from unfair firings

Melody Walker says she was fired out of the blue from her job at Chipotle in 2017 because, she claims her boss told her...

02/13/2020 | New York Daily News
[created] | Published by: Patch
02/13/2020

Serve Up Protection For NYC Fast Food Workers: Bills

Serve Up Protection For NYC Fast Food Workers: Bills

restaurants & bars Fast food workers should no longer be fired without reason, advocates and Park Slope...

02/13/2020 | Patch

Sobre 50 entidades piden al Congreso frenar el acuerdo de reestructuración de las obligaciones generales

Washington - Más de 50 organizaciones exhortaron al Congreso a intervenir y frenar el acuerdo de reestructuración de la...

02/13/2020 | El Nuevo Día
[created] | Published by: Law360
02/6/2020

Arbitration Is A Flawed Forum That Needs Repair

Arbitration Is A Flawed Forum That Needs Repair

The Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Popular Democracy predict that by 2024, almost 83% of the country’s...

02/6/2020 | Law360

Over 60 Green Groups Call on House Dems to Pass Sweeping Worker Rights-Boosting PRO Act

"Protecting workers' rights through the PRO Act is essential to empowering workers to organize...

02/5/2020 | Common Dreams

Durham city manager ‘disappointed’ by council member’s USA Today op-ed on police

Johnson’s op-ed was based on a study by Local Progress and the Center for Popular Democracy, which evaluated 12 cities...

01/31/2020 | News & Observer
[created] | Published by: Commercial Observer
01/31/2020

Clean Up on Aisle Eleven: Private Equity’s Role in Grocery Store Bankruptcies

Clean Up on Aisle Eleven: Private Equity’s Role in Grocery Store Bankruptcies

the general retail market, 10 out of the 14 largest bankruptcies since 2012 were from chains owned by private equity...

01/31/2020 | Commercial Observer
[created] | Published by: Next City
01/31/2020

1,000 People Show Up for 129 Affordable Apartments in Charlotte

1,000 People Show Up for 129 Affordable Apartments in Charlotte

Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley...

01/31/2020 | Next City

Local politicians decided to have police, policies evaluated. Results were shocking.

A new investigation released last month by the Center for Popular Democracy and Local Progress — an organization headed...

01/16/2020 | USA Today
[created] | Published by: The Boston Globe
01/16/2020

Politicians not listening? Flexing your consumer muscle can get results.

Politicians not listening? Flexing your consumer muscle can get results.

Providence-based Citizens Bank — which extended $96 million in credit to CoreCivic in 2018, according to the Center for...

01/16/2020 | The Boston Globe

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Perkins was a key writer of New Deal policies. Known as an expert on health and safety policy reforms in New York state, Frances Perkins was tapped by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor in his cabinet - the first woman to serve.

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Frances Perkins was born in a world on fire. In the early 1900s Robber Barons didn’t care about workers rights or the safety of children that worked in their factories. “Safety laws” as we know them today didn’t exist- and the wealthy actively fought against them.

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